Chinese Meat Supplier of McDonald’s and KFC Gets the Ax By NEIL GOUGH July 21, 2014 1:15 am Customers dining at a KFC restaurant in Shanghai.Credit Aly Song/Reuters The Chinese outlets of McDonald’s and KFC have stopped using meat from a Shanghai company after a local television news program accused the supplier of using chicken…

A Not-So-Subtle Meditation on Sugar By KRISTIN WARTMAN July 9, 2014 Credit Creative Time As people streamed out of the Kara Walker installation “A Subtlety” on a recent Sunday afternoon to buy an ice cream cone from one of the trucks idling outside the old Domino Sugar Factory on the Williamsburg waterfront, I wondered how…

Truthdig / By Chris Hedges It’s Not Going to Be OK The economic crisis could plunge the U.S. into a long period of social instability. Our democracy is in peril; the threat of totalitarianism is real. February 3, 2009 The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political…

Fighting food: Consumers revolt online By: Helena Bottemiller Evich July 19, 2014 07:00 AM EDT Sitting at her kitchen table in Houston, Bettina Siegel, a corporate lawyer-turned-school lunch blogger and mom of two, had no idea she had the power to spark a massive consumer uprising with her laptop. But that’s exactly what she did….

Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, July 20, 2014 Right on? Alan Guebert You’d think that a state constitution eight times longer than the U.S. Constitution might cover every right, act or idea any of its citizens might need, do or ponder. Not so in the Show Me State, Missouri, where on…

Is Missouri ballot measure boon for family farms or just big corporations? BY Marshall Griffin, St. Louis Public Radio July 17, 2014 Editor’s note: Some farmers in the nation’s heartland have begun pushing for “right to farm” measures to protect themselves against campaigns by animal welfare activists and opponents of genetically modified crops. Already, North…

Giant Corporations, Giant Failures Saturday, 05 July 2014 10:33 By Richard D Wolff, Truthout | News Analysis (Image: General Motors, Crime scene via Shutterstock; Edited: EL / TO) General Motors recently released the report it commissioned from the huge Jenner & Block law firm. The latter’s chairman, Anton Valukas, investigated how and why GM failed…

Letter from Langdon: Testing the Obvious 07/15/2014 Like daredevil teenagers, the corporate pork industry is pushing our food system to the edge. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in philosophy to predict the results. By Richard Oswald Photo by Mary Anne Andrei – Hog barns are often stuffed to near capacity, allowing disease to spread easily….

A webinar for CPA supporters and members of co sponsoring organizations As a consumer, you have a right to know about the origin of your food! Country of Origin Labeling: How Multinational Agribusinesses are Attacking This Law Featuring Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF USA Webinar date and time: July 22, 2014; 2p et Details: Congress…

Archdiocese Author makes a Catholic case for humane treatment of animals July 15th, 2014 By Christina Gray Giving up meat is more than a Lenten sacrifice for Charles Camosy, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York, and a lifelong Catholic. After reading about factory farming practices while a…